According to an article in today’s issue of Phileleftheros newspaper, the Attorney General’s office is planning to purchase a server which will cost more than 600,000 euro in order to analyse the thousands of documents relating to economic scandals. The purchase was proposed by a British expert on the field in order the “strengthen the investigation”.
Always according to the article, the ‘electronic brain’ will store 150000 documents sorted and coded for each suspect for quick retrieval. As any owner of a mid range laptop today will tell you 150000 files are nothing by today’s computer technology and could probably even be analysed by any decent smartphone.
The whole article sounds as if it came out of a late 1960′s newspaper. Even though it made it to the front page we still hope this it was a farce or result of journalistic error.
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With that money they could build a decent cloud infrastructure with SAN storage and twenty hypervisors, and prepay its connectivity and power for 10 years in advance. WTF?
For that much you could run a data center or is most of that cost consulting and software?
Or they spelt it wrong “an English Expat” in a bar said…. ;)
Zakhar Kirpichenko, I think you are confusing “it is possible” or “I can” with “they could”. I don’t think THEY could. But it is possible, yes. :)
:) May be. I’m just saying that the amount is f*cking huge.
That is true. :)
According to the price it can be oracle exadata, but what the hell do they need it?
Are you new to Cyprus or something? :D
Did anybody read the actual RFQ for this? I suspect it is not just “one server”
http://www.philenews.com/el-gr.....-oikonomia read for yourself – it seems like it is just one server!
They didnt hear of the cloud fashion?
That’s an article in a newspaper … need the original government tender. Who knows, it could be for some specialized forensic document analysis solution.